Professor in Residence
Medicine and Pediatrics
Professor Dean’s research involves in vitro and bioinformatic approaches to study the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis infection and disease among human populations by evaluating host-pathogen interactions, bacterial functional genomics, host immune responses and microbiomes, including their metabolic pathways and resistomes.. Her group was the first to identify genomic recombination in this human pathogen. The Dean lab also studies the evolution of zoonotic chlamydial species.
